Noname manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) A Hebrew Verb–Complement Dictionary Hanna Fadida · Alon Itai · Shuly Wintner Received: November 20, 2013/ Accepted: November 20, 2013 Abstract We present a verb-complement dictionary of Modern Hebrew, au- tomatically extracted from text corpora. Carefully examining a large set of ex- amples, we defined ten types of verb complements that cover the vast majority of the occurrences of verb complements in the corpora. We explored several collocation measures as indicators of the strength of the association between the verb and its complement. We then used these measures to automatically extract verb complements from corpora. The result is a wide-coverage, accu- rate dictionary that lists not only the likely complements for each verb, but also the likelihood of each complement. We evaluated the quality of the ex- tracted dictionary both intrinsically and extrinsically. Intrinsically, we showed high precision and recall on randomly (but systematically) selected verbs. Ex- trinsically, we showed that using the extracted information is beneficial for two applications, PP attachment disambiguation and Arabic-to-Hebrew machine translation. Keywords Verb subcategorization · Hebrew · Lexicography 1 Introduction The core of syntactic structure, according to most contemporary syntactic the- ories and for most languages, revolves around verbs and their complements. The relations between verbs and their complements are syntactic in nature, but they reflect semantic relations that hold between the action or state denoted H. Fadida Department of Computer Science, Technion. E-mail: fadida@cs.technion.ac.il A. Itai Department of Computer Science, Technion. E-mail: itai@cs.technion.ac.il S. Wintner Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa. E-mail: shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il